I really like WordPress and I’m building a large portion of my business on this easy to use content management system. I started out before we got to version 2.04 but that’s when I really got into it. I have had to update and upgrade many WordPress installations over that time and to be honest it has never been much of a hassle. The most difficult part has been with heavily customized websites and those that use a lot of plugins.
I always wished we had an automatic way to update WordPress and now we do. WordPress Automatic Upgrade is the best plugin ever made for WordPress and a hopeful feature of future additions. The ability to upgrade your software is essential to preventing hack attacks and this plugin makes it so easy to do that I just updated this blog from 2.5 to 2.7 while I was typing the post. I’ll post a couple of screen shots but I don’e have much to say about the steps involved.
It’s all so simple there isn’t much need in like 6 or 7 clicks i was able to backup my database, download the new files and install them and it was so smooth and seamless that all I had to do was save this blog post and then refresh the page. For this site I was told that I need to upgrade to Simple Taggin from Simple Tags and there is now an updated version of Akismet for me to download. The best part is that the new version of WordPress does this in two short clicks and i can now keep my entire blog up to date using the WordPress software and the right plugins.
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